Working Memory Capacity but Not Prior Knowledge Impact on Readers' Attention and Text Comprehension

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Education, March 2020

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People think that reading is a skill, that reading more...

User Best_Type_1258, in the lowIQpeople subreddit, 18 Mar 2025

People think that reading is a skill, that reading more leads to better reading comprehension, for example the first response…

Jeez I like to believe that the ignorant newbies are...

User Neat_Biscotti8950, in the CognitiveTesting subreddit, 13 Jun 2023

Jeez I like to believe that the ignorant newbies are responsible for WMI not being the most voted one, but perhaps that’s not…

Working memory indeed is [very...

User Neat_Biscotti8950, in the CognitiveTesting subreddit, 11 Jun 2023

Working memory indeed is [very important](https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2020.00026/full) for reading…

Hi amounts of crystallised knowledge can never make someone...

User Neat_Biscotti8950, in the CognitiveTesting subreddit, 01 Jun 2023

Hi amounts of crystallised knowledge can never make someone have “impeccable” reading comprehension lmfao. That level of…

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